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Re: adding VIA driver to backported woody XFree86 4.3 - ABI minor version problem



On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 11:58, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
> > I've found Daniel's woody backported packages (1). But as his package
> > doesn't contain my driver, I thought of getting the via driver from
> > XFree source, compile it and add it to the
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ directory.
> 
> You can find drivers on http://www.viaarena.com, I think.

yes but I thought that the XFree drivers would be more up to date.

> > - if not is there any guidance/tips on installing XFree from source,
> > especially on a machine where XFree is already installed. I want to mess
> > as less as possible with the packages on that machine. Should I
> > uninstall (purge) Daniel's packages first? Should I then install X it in
> > a different directory? I've read stories of people trashing their system
> > doing so. 
> 
> If you're going to do so, purge my packages first, but I strongly,
> strongly, strongly recommend checking viaarena - I doubt *all* your
> options are exhausted.

OK I will try that.

> > (0) I installed Debian using PXE boot - just to say that the
> > documentation regarding PXE boot in Debian is not very easy to read.
> > Iv'e found much better documents on the web. 
> 
> There was an excellent article posted at http://www.debianplanet.org a
> while back. 

Yep saw it. That's one of the documents I've used. But that doesn't
change the fact that the Debian install manual is still not an easy
read.

> > (1) BTW: there was a probem with Daniel's packages during configuration.
> > I've found that other peoplehaving the same problem
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg02117.html
> > 
> > I had to patch /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.templates to solve it:
> > It contained entries like "_description" that I replaced by
> > "Description". I can provide a patch if necessary.
> 
> This was fixed ages ago - Marcelo's backports of my packages are
> absolutely ancient.

OK thanks

Jerome



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